September 23rd, 1984 Cincinnati Ohio. I graduated High School early in January to enlist in the Air Force and had been through basic, technical training & then jump school before being assigned to Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton Ohio, which was less then an hour away from Cincinnati.
Our First Sergeant had season tickets, knew I was a Ram fan and gave them to me and my roommate (from Tennessee & a Charger fan although he didn't know Don Coryell's first name, kept calling him Air) anyway I was finally able to see my Los Angeles Rams live and the uniforms were glorious.
Rams had lost Vince Ferragamo the week before against Pittsburgh and Jeff Kemp was leading my Rams, with a 52 yard touchdown pass to Ron Brown the Olympian Sprinter as the Rams controlled the game, but the Bengals scored late and it was 17-14 with about a minute and change left.
The Bengals lined up for an onside kick, but kicked it in the opposite direction, where slow man Mike Guman picked it up and rambled 43 yards for the touchdown, which seem like it took an eternity. Walking out I heard a gentleman say, "I can't believe we lost to them with that quarterback." And I turned to him as he was quite a bit shorter then me and said "How about them Rams." He just shook his head and walked away. What a great day.
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